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The design and implementation of a legal text database

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 1994)

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We describe the design and implementation of a legal text database. The database of provides a number of Greek Council of State decisions in the form of a computer-accessible medium (CD-ROM). A graphical front-end is provided which allows the rapid retrieval of cases based on arbitrary keywords combined using boolean operators. The database was populated by automatically converting the word-processor files into a random text retrieval data structure. The system has been designed and implemented with goals of wide availability, accessibility, extensibility, and user-friendliness.

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  1. SENA S.A., Kyprou 27, GR-152 37, Filothei, Greece

    Diomidis Spinellis

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Spinellis, D. (1994). The design and implementation of a legal text database. In: Karagiannis, D. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58435-8_198

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